without being importuned by fellow clan members asking her for money and bewailing their troubles. New Guineans have learned to appreciate the modern urban inventions of opaque bags and trouser ...

Miss ARMSTRONG importuned her father not to give it up; when be hesitated, (surrounded by secesh influences as he was,) she asked him, I think, for twelve (12) men, saying she would defend the ...

She importuned Wood and Billings to do her bidding. PROSECUTOR:She stood watch whilst one of them struck him with an axe and the other took a knife to his throat. PROSECUTOR:And then for a final ...

IT USED to be a mark of social status to be “well connected.” One’s network of friends and acquaintances needs only to be mentioned to open doors and secure favors. Fraternities, alumni associations, ...

These men for years were importuned to join hands with those who were stronger and ready to pull them out from their embarrassments and fit them in to be useful in the administration of the ...

and Mehta’s answer seems to me confused: “To put it bluntly,” he says, students “were importuned to stay away by the same people decrying GW’s new history requirements”: What else ...

Says Fleur: “I couldn’t get around the word. I just had to use it.” After she had dreamed and importuned for two years, Publisher Cowles decided that Fleur was absolutely right. This week, ...

If a land use proposal is opposed, especially in a suburban or rural town, by a petition signed by hundreds of residents, it is difficult for commissioners to be oblivious; they are importuned ...

The formerly enslaved people at the camp importuned him to write letters helping them find lost relatives. It was an almost impossible task, since they didn’t know the last names their family members ...

The dying money-hoarder lies naked on his bed as a skeletal, white-cloaked angel of death pushes the door ajar to point a dagger at him. Bosch sets the scene with élan: The miser is importuned both by ...

(Or Jack Kirby as in "Simon and" and "Lee and," come to that.) I'm especially pleased that, just as I have importuned them to do at every opportunity I ever had (even if they did so for their own ...

Someone might choose to go out to await the procession, while someone else might hide out in his or her apartment and seal the windows. Those who choose to hide are importuned by the marchers to come ...